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NVIDIA open sources the first GPU-accelerated medical physics simulation framework
NVIDIA released what it describes as the first open source GPU-accelerated medical physics simulation framework, aimed at training healthcare robots on deformable tissue, instrument bending, and contact dynamics before real-world deployment. Soft-body contact simulation has been the hard blocker for surgical robotics — rigid-body sim transfers poorly when the environment deforms. Open-sourcing the framework rather than gating it behind Omniverse licensing is the notable part.
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